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Webster 1913 Edition


Coenogamy

Cœ-nog′a-my

,
Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK];
κοινόσ
common + [GREEK] marraige.]
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; – as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.
[Written also
cenogamy
.]